View Single Post
  #62 (permalink)  
Old 22-September-2006, 01:15 PM
antoniseb's Avatar
antoniseb antoniseb is online now
Moderator
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Irvine CA
Posts: 14,862
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by 1blue View Post
And when wil be Hubble retired?
Because it is soon end of "his" life in space
Hi 1blue, welcome to the BAUT forum.

Presuming that the Hubble Space Telescope manages to keep its gyros healthy enough to get to the next servicing mission, it should stay in operation for another five to ten years after that. The limiting factor will be that at some point, the new gyros we put in will fail, and before it is completely uncontrollable, it will need to be deorbited.
__________________
Forming opinions as we speak
Reply With Quote